MARK HADDON is a writer and illustrator of numerous award-winning children’s books and television screenplays, as well as the novels The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, A Spot of Bother, and The Red House, as well as a collection of poetry, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea As a young man, Haddon worked with autistic individuals. He teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and at Oxford University. He lives in Oxford, England.
"Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully
intelligent." --The Boston Globe
"Smart, honbets and wrenching." --San
Francisco Chronicle
"Astonishingly captivating . . . firece and ingenious."
--The Miami Herald
"Briliant. . . .Delightful. . . Very moving, very plausibe--and
very funny." --Oliver Sacks
“Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a
superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare
gifts of empathy.” --Ian McEwan
"I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and
agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and
memorable." --Arthur Golden
“The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision
-- plus it's a lot of fun to read.” -- Myla
Goldberg
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